Sentences with phrase «compared previous decades»

Likewise, we find that natural variability, this last decade warming on the low end compared previous decades, the lack of coverage in the Arctic and so on may have played a role in Lewis» underestimating transient climate sensitivity:

Not exact matches

The number of actual tickets sold in 2015 was essentially flat compared to the previous five years and the number was down by about 2.5 % from a decade earlier.

TORONTO — For the first time in more than two decades, voter turnout increased in Ontario compared to the previous provincial election.

He then compared this to Brookings data on previous administrations, finding that Trump's was «higher than any White House in decades.»

On the other hand, New Zealand will become more limited with a 1.7 % annual expected growth in the next decade, compared with 5.2 % annual growth over the previous 10 years.

[2] The CWLA and many adoption agencies are still in operation today, but with an expanded and somewhat different agenda compared to past decades, as the government has largely taken over some of their previous responsibilities.

The conundrum was created by a series of studies beginning in the previous decade that directly compared the cognitive abilities of parrots and crows with those of primates.

Chinese emissions grew at 4.2 %, due to slower economic growth and faster improvements in carbon intensity of the economy compared to the previous decade

«It's very difficult to compare the types of repression that were recorded in previous decades with what the monitors are collecting today,» said Fariss.

FAO's study found that globally, the rate of deforestation had declined to about 13 million hectares lost annually from 2000 to 2010 compared with 16 million hectares lost each year of the previous decade.

It refers to a period of slower surface warming in the wake of the 1997 - 98 super El Niño compared to the previous decades.

And comparing their estimate with previous estimates decade by decade, the researchers conclude that «there is no evidence» for a decreasing trend in war - related deaths since the 1950s.

The rate of ocean warming has nearly doubled since 1992 compared with the previous three decades.

By comparing findings of the current period of minimum activity with those of previous cycles, scientists can paint a picture of the changes in the sun over a span of decades, and sometimes centuries.

In addition, the technologically biased structural change that has been affecting the economy over the past several decades has increased entry level job requirements and made it more challenging for Millennials to get their careers off the ground compared to previous generations.

The Government schools will receive an extra $ 18 billion over the next decade, when compared to its previous budget.

• Newark Public Schools has completely redesigned the way it hires, evaluates and supports its instructional staff • Over the past 5 years, NPS has filed nearly 140 tenure charges (compared to less than 10 over the entire previous decade).

The school's outcome overall appears positive, but I continually compare it with what might have been, and note that Green Dot now appears a mere footnote in the national conversation about how to improve America's schools, whereas we were front and center at the end of the previous, disastrous decade.

A new decade and Mario has more title roles given compared to the previous era other than starring as Cameo's in other games.

The prevalence of electronic devices make recording interviews an easier and more informal process compared to the technically more demanding interviews of previous decades.

They're projected to rise 2 % in 2017, compared to 6 % a year averaged over the previous decade, due to significant government interventions in the economy...

In particular, the very deepest part of the return flow (at around 3000 to 5000 m) has reduced and moved up in the water column compared to previous decades.

The most exciting thing is we'll get a chance to see the relative strength of all of these over the next few years, and it will most interesting to compare the total decade of 2010 - 2019 to previous decades in terms of the trends in Arctic Sea ice, Global Temps, and of course, OHC.

From Solanki, Usokin, Kromer, Shussler, and Beer's, 2004 paper «Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years»

«Unusual Activity of the Sun During Recent Decades Compared to the Previous 11,000 Years.»

(The trend for that decade was 0.03 C / year, way low compared to recent previous decades, so to say it trended down in that decade is a fair statement.)

«Using all these different observations that have been collected over time, it pretty much verifies the trend that we have from the model for the past 13 years, though our estimate of thinning compared to previous decades may have been a little slow,» co-researcher Axel Schweiger added.

Solanki had it pegged (his letter to nature, «Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years», Oct 2004) considering strength and duration, at about a 8000 year maximum.

The rate of ice mass loss in the Russian Arctic has nearly doubled over the last decade when compared to records from the previous 60 years, a new study shows.

Comparing the global temperature at the time of the most recent three La Ninas (1999 - 2000, 2008, and 2011 - 2012), it is apparent that global temperature has continued to rise between recent years of comparable tropical temperature, indeed, at a rate of warming similar to that of the previous three decades.

The obtained results might indicate an increase in the number of such events for the waves with m = 4 and m = 5 in the last decade or so, compared with the previous ones, but this conclusion needs further verification.

Both 2007 and 2008 qualify as major outliers compared to previous summer minimum sea ice extents over the last three decades.

Changes in CO2 emissions attributed to Kaya Identity factors from 2015 to 2016 compared with the trend from the prior decade: This figure gives context to the most recent year ‐ to ‐ year change by comparing it to the average change for key parameters over the previous decade.

By comparing the rate of change for each parameter from 2015 to 2016 to the average rate of change for that parameter for the previous decade, the contribution of each parameter to the overall deviation from trend can be calculated.

However, 10 years is such a short period compared to the previous one, we can nary conclude anything at all about the effect of the dam on the river flow in the past decade, or in the coming decades.

As near as I can tell, what is particularly meaningful is comparing the trend over the decades when we have increased ACO2 emissions significantly to previous decades.

Lowering the most recent adjustments compared to the previous decade.

They're projected to rise 2 % in 2017, compared to 6 % a year averaged over the previous decade, due to significant government interventions in the economy, according to the report.

Compared to the decade previous, this summer's Arctic summer ice loss of 4.1 mKm2 sea ice plus ~ 1.5 m km2 of land ice melting, on Greenland and other Arctic islands, considerably exceeds 1 % of the area of the Earth

Considerable evidence uncovered in the last decade suggests that previous tornadoes actually were underrated compared to the 1980s and 1990s.

Most assessments of ice sheet contribution to sea level rise indicate an acceleration over the past decade, whereas altimeter - measured SLR has not been faster over the most recent decade (2003 - 2012) compared to the previous one (1993 - 2002).

But these being new satellite based readings we will not be able to compare them with the findings of the previous decade.

Hi Anthony, yes the newer version of the RSS data greatly enhances the lead for the current decade compared to the previous decade.

Changes in technology, methods of working and business practice mean the modern workplace and job market are very different compared with previous decades.

«The number of sales in December was down not only in comparison to the previous year's December sales but also when compared to December sales over the last decade or so,» said Godsoe.